Education

Admissions / Qualifications

Qualifications

Not admitted in the District of Columbia. Practice is limited to matters and proceedings before federal courts and agencies.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998

Court Admissions

Supreme Court of the United States

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Supreme Court of Virginia

Membership & Affiliations

PTAB Bar Association, Board of Directors

American Bar Association

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Awards

Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business

The Legal 500 US (2012, 2015)

Managing IP Magazine: Virginia “Litigator of the Year” (2017)

Managing IP Magazine: PTAB “Litigator of the Year” (2015)

Best Lawyers in America: Litigation–Intellectual Property (2015-2017)

IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners (2012-2017)

Managing IP Magazine: “IP Star” (2013-2017)

The National Law Journal: IP Trailblazers & Pioneers (2014)

Temple University: Gallery of Success (2013)

Scott A. McKeown

Partner

Scott McKeown is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s intellectual property litigation practice and chair of the firm’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) group. He focuses his practice on post-grant patent counseling and litigation matters at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)and related appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Scott handles all aspects of post-issuance patent proceedings, specializing in administrative trials before the PTAB, such as inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR). He also provides advice on USPTO post-grant proceedings concurrent with complex International Trade Commission (ITC) and district court litigations.

Named one of the world’s leading patent practitioners for post-grant proceedings by Intellectual Asset Management, Scott is the most active PTAB trial attorney in the U.S., having handled more than 150 PTAB matters since 2012, including those in which more than $500 million was at stake. He currently serves as lead post-grant counsel to some of the world’s best-known innovators.

As a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School and a member of the teaching faculty of the Practising Law Institute, Scott lectures and writes extensively on PTAB proceedings. He is a former chair of the American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section Committee 104 (Post-Grant USPTO Proceedings), and currently sits on the Board of Directors of the PTAB Bar Association.He is also a contributing editor to the Sedona Conference Working Group 10: Patent Litigation Best Practices. Scott also maintains an award-winning blog, PatentsPostGrant.com, which examines developments in patent litigation, including issues related to USPTO post issuance proceedings.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Scott worked as an electrical engineer for a government agency, troubleshooting embedded systems and circuit designs. He also has experience across a wide range of related technologies, including computer software, wireless telecommunication protocols, network architectures, e-commerce applications, analog and digital signal processing, and consumer electronics.

Innolux Corp v. Semiconductor Energy Labs(IPR2013-00028, 00038, 00060, 00064, 00065, 00066, and 00068): Challenged the semiconductor patents of Semiconductor Energy Labs (SEL) directed to complex TFT semiconductors and manufacturing methodologies. Seven IPRs were filed attacking several hundred claims in total, all of which were instituted by the PTAB. As a result of these IPRs, the litigation between the companies was stayed, and the dispute settled.*

K40 Electronics LLC v. Escort Inc.(IPR2013-00203; IPR2013-00240): In the first and only IPR to date to include live testimony, the PTAB found in favor of client K40 Electronics, canceling all challenged claims.*

Speaker, “Convincing the PTAB – Developing and Presenting Evidence in PTAB Proceedings,” The Power of PTAB: The New Authority in Patent Law Conference at the Chicago-Kent College of Law (October 20, 2017)

Speaker, “Four Years of the PTAB” and “A General Overview of the Patent Litigation Landscape,” IAM’s Patent Law & Policy: Courts, Congress, and the Monetisation Landscape (November 15, 2016)

Moderator, “Advanced Practice Before the PTAB; Institution, the New Battle Ground,” Institute for Law & Technology of the Center for American & International Law: Doubleheader PTAB Bench-Bar Program (October 18, 2016)

Speaker, IPR-CBM Roundtable Discussion, The George Washington University Law School (October 7, 2016)

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Award-winning insight into the latest developments and issues related to USPTO post-issuance proceedings from Scott McKeown, chair of Ropes & Gray’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board practice and the most active PTAB trial attorney in the United States.

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